This information is directed to a young woman who’s just learned that her ex-boyfriend is on the way to her city and he’s carrying handcuffs and duct tape. Although
How to Be Invisible details plans to disappear eventually, what is needed at present is to disappear NOW!
Your ex-boyfriend may have illegal access to records normally confined to the police and the government. Assuming this might be the case, here’s what to do:
Remove the battery from your cell phone so that it cannot be tracked. If you can’t get the battery out, then leave it behind or give it away. If you must make a call in regard to some urgent matter, use a pay phone but then leave that area the moment you hang up. Empty your bank account, pawn anything of value, and borrow from your friends. From this point on,
do not use a credit, debit, or ATM card.
If you have a car or can borrow one, flee the city and if possible the state. If you have any small items that can be sold later on Craigslist, stuff them in the trunk. Obey all traffic signs and
stay within the speed limit. Even if your stalker is a policeman—as some are!—it is unlikely that he
would dare put out an all-points bulletin (or BOLO, which stands for "be on the lookout").
From this point on,
use only the U.S. mail to communicate with your family and friends. They can reply to you via a new Webmail address provided they enter you in their address books under another name and address you only with that name in each e-mail. You can pick up these messages in a library or an Internet cafe. But now comes the hardest part—finding a place to stay. On the road, avoid all major chains because they demand ID and enter it in their computer databases. Instead,
choose a small mom-and-pop motel where they will accept whatever name you give them as long as you pay cash.
When you get to where you are going, either stay with an old friend who is unknown to your stalker or else
rent a room from a private party. (Use your “new” name.) Then, and only then, pick up a copy of
How to Be Invisible at Barnes & Noble and start planning your future.
Labels: anonymous travel, avoiding a stalker, cell phone tracking, how to be invisible, how to disappear, rent a room
Privacy blog post by JJ Luna at 12:13 AM
